If applications pass preliminary assessment they commence the evaluation process. This statistic is a count of the number of applications commencing evaluation in the reporting period. Between July 2015 and June 2016, the APVMA commenced evaluation on 2510 applications in total, including 1606 product applications, 342 active applications and 562 permit applications.

The below figure shows how many applications commenced by quarter. Quarter 1 represents July–September 2015, quarter 2 represents October–December 2015, quarter 3 represents January–March 2016 and quarter 4 represents April–June 2016. The year to date result combines results for all three quarters. The APVMA commenced the most evaluations in quarter 4.

Number of applications commencing evaluation by the APVMA July 2015 – June 2016

Note: The sum of the three quarters may not equal the total year to date figure, due to small adjustments in data entry for a few applications. The quarter 1 and 2 data above are the same as those published in February 2016 for consistency and because the original figures were correct at the time of publication. The overall differences are immaterial and less than 1 per cent of the totals.